Symas software release announcements and comments

Archive: April 2010

Release of Symas Unified User Management 3.4.8 for AIX 5.3 and 6.1 on PPC

Symas Unified User Management version 3.4.8 is available on our download site. The principal change for this release:

nss_ldap:
* Symas #903: Fixed two bugs in _nss_ldap_parse_net(),
ldap-network.c. The bugs caused core dump in
getnetby{name,addr} and getnetent calls on AIX 5.3 and 6.1.

This release is available immediately for AIX 5.3 and 6.1 on PPC.

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Symas OpenLDAP 2.4.21.2 additional platforms

This package is now available for download:

* SunOS 5.10 on x86 and x86_64

Additional information concerning the 2.4.21.2 release is here:

Symas OpenLDAP 2.4.21.2 Released

Symas OpenLDAP 2.4.21.2 Released

Symas OpenLDAP 2.4.21.2 is available on our download site.

This release is available immediately for these platforms:

  • RHEL4/RHEL5/SLES9/SLES10 on i386 and x86_64
  • SunOS 5.10 on SPARC 64-bit and 32-bit
  • Microsoft Windows on x86

The changes for this release include:

OpenLDAP:
Fixed assert in slaptools under Windows (Symas #865)
Fixed assert error in rwm ITS#6484 (Symas #807)
Fixed db_sql not in package (Symas #792)
Fixed solserver script doesn’t handle USER and GROUP settings from
config file (Symas #806)
Added delete and archive support to slapo-homedir (Symas #738)
Added HPOV overlays (Symas #827)
Fixed back-ldap+rwm+pcache core dump (Symas #858, ITS#6484)
Fixed back-bdb/hdb uninit lock DBT (Symas #844, ITS#6501)

OpenSSL:
Upgrade to 0.9.8n;
CFB cipher definition fixes.
Fix security issues CVE-2010-0740 and CVE-2010-0433.
Cipher definition fixes.
Workaround for slow RAND_poll() on some WIN32 versions.
Remove MD2 from algorithm tables.
SPKAC handling fixes.
Support for RFC5746 TLS renegotiation extension.
Compression memory leak fixed.
Compression session resumption fixed.
Ticket and SNI coexistence fixes.
Many fixes to DTLS handling.
Temporary work around for CVE-2009-3555: disable renegotiation.

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Symas Unified User Management 3.4.7 additional SPARC platforms

These packages are now available for download:

* SunOS 5.8 and 5.9 on SPARC

Additional information concerning the 3.4.7 release is here:

Release of Symas Unified User Management 3.4.7 for SunOS 5.10 on SPARC

Release of Symas Unified User Management 3.4.7 for SunOS 5.10 on SPARC

Symas Unified User Management version 3.4.7 is available on our download site. The principal change for this release:

Packaging:

* Solaris 5.10 is bundled with a recoversuum script
that can be used to recover nss_ldap and pam_ldap libraries after
Solaris patches. Also, the packaging is configured in a way in
which SUUM can be installed on global and whole-root local
zones. See Platform Notes for further details.

This release is available immediately for SunOS 5.10 on SPARC.

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